0»NI«Stt  Bif  ILLIHOIS 

JUNIATA  COLLEGE 
BULLETIN 


Vol.  XII  '  SEPTEMBER,  1915  No.  3  A 


COMMENCEMENT  ADDRESS 

BY 

HONORABLE  MARTIN  G.  BRUMBAUGH 

GOVERNOR  OF  PENNSYLVANIA 

PUBLISHED  QUARTERLY  BY  JUNIATA  COLLEGE 
HUNTINGDON,  PENN’A. 


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Juniata  College  Bulletin 

Vol.  Xll  SEPTEMBER,  1915  No.  3  A 

COMMENCEMENT  ADDRESS 

BY 

HONORABLE  MARTIN  G.  BRUMBAUGH 
GOVERNOR  OF  PENNSYLVANIA 
JUNE  17,  1915 


T  is  an  unusual  pleasure  for  me  to  be  here  today. 
It  is  not  the  first  Commencement  which  I  have 
attended  at  Juniata.  I  have  had  the  privilege 
in^the  past  of  sitting  with  the  undergraduates 
and  seeing  the  class  graduate.  Once  I  made  a  speech 
when  I  was  graduated  that  nobody  knows  anything  about, 
fortunately  for  them.  I  also  had  the  privilege  later  on 
of  helping  to  prepare  a  graduating  class  for  its  part  on 
an  occasion  like  this.  And  still  later  I  had  the  privilege 
of  conferring  the  degrees  and  handing  the  diplomas  to 
some  of  those  of  you  who  sit  here  this  morning,  graduates 
of  Juniata.  I  have  worked  here,  I  have  played;  and 
here  in  an  institution  founded  in  a  large  way  by  the 
people  of  my  own  family  and  entirely  by  the  people  of 
my  own  faith,  you  can  understand  with  what  deep  feel¬ 
ings  I  return  to  you  this  morning,  for  I  love  the  old 
school  quite  as  much  as  I  ever  did  in  the  past. 

The  problem  facing  us  now  is,  what  can  we  say  to 
these  young  men  and  women  as  they  are  about  to  sever 


their  student  life  and  go  out  to  find  their  place  and  do 
their  work  side  by  side  with  may  others  in  life.  You 
have  often  heard  it  said,  that  one’s  happiest  days  are  his 
school  days,  that  never  again,  no  matter  how  long  you 
live  or  what  success  may  come  to  you,  there  never  will 
return  to  you,  so  they  say,  days  so  deep  with  joy  as  the 
days  you  spent  in  school.  It  is  a  pleasing  thought,  and 
many  people  regard  it  as  true ;  and  yet,  if  you  may  take 
the  word  of  experience  and  the  testimony  of  those  who 
have  lived,  such,  after  all,  is  not  the  case.  In  fact  it 
ought  not  to  be  the  case,  because  when  you  are  a  student 
in  a  college  or  a  child  in  a  home  you  do  not  know  the 
depth  of  real  joy  in  life  because  your  life  is  ordered  and 
directed  and  controlled  by  others.  It  is  not  until  you 
have  lived  to  take  your  own  place  in  life,  work  out  your 
own  problems  and  achieve  your  own  success,  that  you 
begin  to  taste  at  the  fountains  of  real  joy  and  abiding 
happiness. 

Up  to  now,  this  graduating  class  has  been  guided  and 
helped  by  others.  Their  parents  in  the  home,  their 
neighbors  in  the  communities  where  they  have  lived, 
the  faculty  of  the  college  where  they  have  been  educated, 
these  have  thought,  these  have  wrought  for  them.  Now 
as  they  are  graduated,  they  must  go  out  and  begin  to 
work  for  others,  and  that  is  quite  a  different  problem. 
It  is  one  thing  to  have  the  world  work  for  you,  it  is  an¬ 
other  thing  to  work  for  the  world;  and  leaving  your 
school,  you  take  on  not  only  the  responsibilities  of  nature 
and  earnest  life,  but  you  take  on  also  the  joys  and  the 
satisfactions  that  come  only  to  those  who  have  the  cour¬ 
age  to  do  the  right,  and  who  steadfastly  through  the 
years  pursue  it  in  the  performance  of  whatever  duty  may 
fall  to  their  lot.  So  I  should  like  to  impress  upon  you 
that  the  real  joy  of  this  world  is  the  joy  that  comes  from 
service  rendered  to  others  and  not  from  receiving  service 

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from  others ;  that  you  will  never  know  what  it  really 
means  to  live  until  you  have  learned  how  to  live  for 
others  and  for  the  world  at  large. 

When  I  was  a  boy  a  good  many  years  ago  in  the  little 
school  at  Marklesburg,  on  the  front  page  of  my  Geog¬ 
raphy  was  a  picture.  To  my  boy  eyes  it  was  a  wonder¬ 
ful  thing.  There  was  a  turtle,  and  on  the  turtle  a  man, 
and  on  the  man  the  world.  It  was  Atlas,  carrying  on 
his  shoulders  the  whole  world.  It  was  emblematic  of 
the  fact  that  the  book  which  carried  his  portrait  on  its 
title  page  was  a  book  that  gave  to  my  mind  and  the  mind 
of  anyone  who  looked  at  it,  a  knowledge  of  that  world 
held  up  by  the  strong,  steady  sinews  of  the  great  mythi¬ 
cal  Atlas.  It  was  more,  now  that  I  look  at  the  picture 
again,  than  a  mere  advertisement  of  a  Geography.  It 
was  typical  of  life  for  you  and  for  me ;  for  all  of  us,  in 
one  way  or  another,  must  carry  our  own  world  on  our 
own  shoulders  if  we  are  to  be  worthy  of  the  place  that 
we  occupy  in  society,  in  the  State,  in  the  Nation.  The 
important  thing  is  not  that  you  should  uphold  the  physi¬ 
cal  universe.  You  do  not  have  to  do  that.  Atlas  never 
did.  He  wasn’t  called  for  that  purpose.  The  universe, 
this  physical  world  which  he  was  supposed  to  carry, 
keeps  itself.  It  long  ago  learned,  when  it  swept  out  of 
the  thought  of  God,  to  obey  His  law  and  live,  and  so  it 
has  lived. 

But  you  have  a  world  just  as  real  as  this  physical 
world  upon  which  you  sit,  upon  which  these  buildings 
stand,  upon  which  our  roads  stretch  out  to  the  horizon. 
The  important  thing  for  the  graduate,  for  the  man  or 
the  woman  living  today,  is  that  we  should  pick  first  of  all 
a  good  world  to  uphold,  and  then  with  secure  founda¬ 
tions,  more  secure  than  the  back  of  a  tortoise,  stand  and 
uphold  our  world  through  the  days  and  the  years  of  our 
lives.  I  do  not  know,  I  doubt  whether  these  capped 


and  gowned  potential  units  of  society  know,  just  what 
world  will  nestle  down  and  rest  upon  their  shoulders ; 
but  I  know  this,  that  they  like  you,  in  a  large  measure 
can  choose  the  quality  of  life  they  will  uphold  and  the 
kind  of  a  world  they  will  support.  It  is  important  that 
you  should  lend  your  strength,  your  physical,  your  men¬ 
tal,  your  spiritual  strength  to  a  great  and  splendid  ser¬ 
vice,  and  not  to  an  unworthy  one. 

So  many  of  us  waste  our  chance,  lose  our  opportu¬ 
nities,  destroy  our  effectiveness  because  we  give  our¬ 
selves  to  things  that  are  not  worthy  of  us.  We  pay  too 
dear  for  many  of  the  things  that  we  buy  in  the  markets 
of  the  world.  I  have  a  dog  at  home,  and  one  of  his  chief 
occupations  is  to  chase  his  tail  in  a  circle.  He  doesn’t 
get  anywhere.  It  is  a  useless  kind  of  thing,  and  we 
wouldn’t  permit  it,  excepting  that  because  the  dog  is  a 
useless  appendage  of  the  family  it  is  a  part  of  him  to  do 
that.  Now  what  I  want  to  impress  particularly  upon 
this  graduating  class  is  the  fact  that  it  is  important  early 
in  life  to  choose  a  definite  thing  to  do  and  then  direct 
the  energies  of  your  life  to  the  accomplishment  of  that 
thing.  Stand  under  your  world  resolutely,  steadfastly, 
securely,  so  that  when  you  have  lived  your  life  it  may  be 
said  of  you,  that  you  have  lived  it  to  a  purpose  and  not 
uselessly.  We  begin  to  understand  that  in  God’s  econ¬ 
omy  nothing  is  wasted,  and  that  the  things  which  we 
throw  aside  as  waste  and  which  we  discard  as  useless 
become  in  the  course  of  years  and  centuries  the  very 
materials  out  of  which  society  weaves  its  strength  and 
its  life.  Nothing  is  wasted,  nothing  is  useless,  nothing 
is  lost  to  the  world.  We  begin  to  understand  that  some 
of  us  inconsiderately  throw  away  our  lives  in  useless, 
idle,  purposeless,  meaningless  ways. 

The  other  day  I  received  the  catalogue  of  the  grad¬ 
uates  of  this  college,  and  because  I  knew  my  name  would 

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appear  somewhere  in  the  list,  I  was  naturally  interested 
in  looking  it  over,  and  I  found  it.  I  found  many  others 
there  that  I  knew  nearly  as  well  as  I  knew  my  own.  To 
me  the  remarkable  thing  was  to  read  the  names  and  see 
what  these  different  boys  and  girls  of  my  early  years 
were  doing,  what  world  they  were  shouldering,  how  they 
were  carrying  themselves,  the  quality  of  service  they 
were  rendering,  the  kind  of  life  they  were  living,  the 
standards  they  had  set  and  formed  and  fixed  in  their 
souls  and  striven  to  achieve.  Then  I  saw  and  read  the 
list,  and  saw  on  the  whole  what  a  fine  record  the  gradu¬ 
ates  of  this  good  little  college  have  made  in  this  world 
of  ours,  and  I  saw  in  that  record  inspiration  and  help 
and  strength  for  you  who  are  about  to  join  the  ranks. 

I  suppose  if  there  is  any  one  thing  that  we  admire  in 
an  individual  more  than  another  thing,  it  is  the  power 
to  do  things,  the  power  of  achievement,  the  quality  which 
sums  itself  up  in  the  phrase,  “He  gets  there.”  You  have 
heard  it.  You  have  taken  your  hat  off  to  it.  The  farmer 
who  produces  a  satisfactory  crop  is  the  farmer  whom 
you  respect.  The  teacher  who  trains  his  pupils  in  the 
best  way  is  the  best  teacher,  and  the  training  which  he 
gives  is  the  result  of  his  power  as  a  teacher.  Somehow 
we  are  all  reaching  out  for  the  power  to  do  things.  That 
is  why  we  go  to  school.  That  is  why  we  study  the  math¬ 
ematics  and  the  languages  and  the  sciences  and  history 
and  all  the  other  things  that  fall  within  the  scope  of  a 
curriculum  of  training.  It  is  through  these  that  we  may 
take  unto  ourselves  the  power  to  do  effective  service  in 
the  world.  Now  if  you  want  that  power,  if  you  want  it 
really,  if  you  want  it  more  than  you  want  any  other 
thing,  you  can  get  it  if  you  are  willing  to  pay  the  price 
for  it.  It  doesn’t  come  to  you  in  your  stocking  on 
Christmas  night.  It  isn’t  given  to  you  by  those  who  love 
you,  on  your  anniversary  day.  It  is  brought  to  you  by 


new  knowledge,  given  to  you  by  new  power.  It  is  wrought 
out  in  your  own  soul  by  your  own  efforts.  It  is  the  thing 
that  you  make  yourself  to  be  that  you  are  in  the  last 
analysis,  so  that  it  is  a  truism  that  you  actually  carry 
your  own  destiny  in  the  hollow  of  your  own  hand.  You 
can  do  things  if  you  want  to  do  things.  You  will  not  do 
things  if  you  expect  others  to  make  it  easy  for  you  to  get 
things  done.  A  lazy  man,  a  really  lazy  man,  a  man  who 
is  too  lazy  to  move  and  who  grunts  when  he  must,  is  of 
little  account  on  earth.  An  intellectually  lazy  man  or 
woman  who  has  not  the  enterprise  or  ambition  or  defi¬ 
niteness  of  purpose  or  continuity  of  purpose,  is  just  about 
as  useless  in  the  world  as  a  fifth  wheel  to  a  wagon.  It  is 
your  enterprise,  it  is  your  toil,  it  is  your  work,  it  is  your 
business  that  develops  through  the  years  the  power  that 
you  need  if  you  are  to  work  effectively  in  life.  Now  to 
help  you  to  that,  there  are  a  few  things  that  could  be 
said  on  an  occasion  like  this. 

In  the  first  place,  there  is  a  great  power  comes  to  an 
individual  when  he  makes  up  his  mind  to  do  one  thing 
and  stick  to  that  thing  through  life.  There  is  power  in 
a  great  purpose  set  up  before  you  and  lived  to  every  day 
of  your  life.  In  the  early  40’s  of  the  last  century  a  young 
man  aspired  to  a  seat  in  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of 
Illinois.  He  knew  few  of  his  constituents  and  fellow 
citizens,  and  in  order  to  introduce  himself  to  them,  he 
prepared  a  little  broadside  which  I  have  seen.  It  is  not 
as  large  as  this  program  of  exercises  that  you  hold  in 
your  hand.  Upon  that  he  had  printed  what  we  now 
call  in  political  life  his  platform,  the  things  he  stood  for, 
the  things  he  would  work  for,  the  things  he  believed  in. 
He  distributed  them  among  the  voters,  and  by  one  of 
those  strange  accidents  of  public  life,  people  believed  in 
what  he  said  and  elected  him  to  the  Legislature.  In 
that  little  broadside  he  said,  among  other  things:  “I 


have  been  deprived  through  no  fault  of  my  own,  the 
blessings  of  a  liberal  education,  but  I  have  always  re¬ 
garded  it  as  one  of  the  choicest  possessions  of  a  man, 
and  if  elected  to  the  office  to  which  I  aspire  and  oppor¬ 
tunity  arises,  I  shall  unhesitatingly  and  unalterably  sup¬ 
port  everything  that  makes  for  the  better  education  of 
the  people.  ’  ’  Those  were  the  words  of  Abraham  Lincoln 
when  he  first  stepped  into  public  life  in  Illinois.  Twenty 
years  after  that,  in  1862,  as  President  of  the  United 
States,  the  chance  came  to  fulfill  that  purpose  of  his 
early  youth  when  the  Morrill  Land  Grant  Act  was  passed, 
establishing  agricultural  colleges  throughout  this  nation. 
And  when  Lincoln  signed  the  Land  Grant  Act,  next  to 
the  Emancipation  Proclamation,  he  wrote  the  largest 
document  of  freedom  that  has  ever  been  issued  in  Amer¬ 
ica,  for  in  these  colleges  that  he  thus  created  were  liber¬ 
ated  the  minds  of  our  young  men  and  women  throughout 
all  the  years  and  centuries  that  are  to  come  ;  and  perhaps 
when  your  grandchildren  gather  here,  they  will  testify 
to  what  I  now  prophesy,  that  in  the  last  analysis  and 
in  the  wide  reaches  of  national  progress  and  power, 
that  act  meant  a  larger  advance  to  the  human  race  even 
than  the  Emancipation  Proclamation.  It  was  the  power 
of  a  purpose  set  aright  in  his  young  heart  and  achieved 
in  his  mature  years. 

I  have  told  you  before,  and  I  want  to  tell  you  again, 
that  over  in  the  mountains  of  Switzerland,  after  the 
bloody  Spanish  Wars  and  the  ruthless  invasions  and 
persecutions  of  Alva,  when  canton  after  canton  was  rob¬ 
bed  of  its  men,  leaving  armies  of  widows  and  orphan 
children,  a  pious  minister  of  the  Gospel  visiting  among 
his  parishioners  day  after  day  was  accompanied  by  his 
little  grandson  Henry.  One  day  when  he  had  been  in 
a  number  of  homes  of  unusual  distress  and  suffering,  they 
started  late  in  the  evening  back  to  the  parsonage,  and 

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the  little  boy  holding  the  hand  of  his  grandfather  said, 
“Grandfather,  when  I  become  a  man  I  shall  take  the 
side  of  the  poor,”  and  when  he  became  a  man  he  took 
the  side  of  the  poor.  He  was  then  at  Neuhof,  and  later 
on  at  Stanz,  and  later  still  at  Yverdun  and  later  still  at 
Burgdorf.  Living  with  the  orphans  of  grand  children 
that  he  had  visited  as  a  boy,  he  sat  up  at  night  and  patched 
their  torn  and  tattered  garments  while  they  slept.  He 
cooked  the  simple  meal  that  these  orphans  ate.  It  was 
said  of  him  that  he  lived  like  a  beggar  that  he  might 
train  beggars  to  live  like  men.  And  when  you  walk  the 
streets  of  Switzerland’s  proudest  city,  its  finest  monument 
is  to  the  boy  that  took  the  side  of  the  poor  and  carried 
that  purpose  through  his  life,  Heinrich  Pestalozzi,  the 
great  educator. 

There  is  also  power  in  your  preparation  for  service 
in  life.  There  are  some  who  go  through  school  and 
college  with  one  thought  in  mind,  “How  can  I  put  it 
over  the  professor  and  skim  through  with  the  least 
amount  of  effort  to  myself,”  whose  sole  ambition  seems 
to  be  just  to  graduate  to  please  somebody  else,  but  who 
never  knew  in  all  their  college  career  one  earnest  day’s 
solid  application  to  the  books  and  to  the  lessons  of  the 
day.  On  the  other  hand,  those  who  take  their  lessons 
seriously  and  who  day  after  day  do  the  largest  service 
which  the  day  presents  to  them  to  do,  come  at  last 
through  the  long  preparation  of  years  of  earnestness  to 
the  possession  of  a  power  that  makes  them  leaders  of 
men.  I  want  to  commend  to  you  the  importance  of 
long,  earnest,  steady  preparation  before  you  get  into 
the  work  of  life  to  fight  its  battles,  to  win  its  victories 
and  to  receive  its  rewards.  Do  not  think  that  because 
you  have  lived  in  a  boarding  school  for  two  or  three  or 
four  years  and  have  studied  a  little  Latin  and  less  Greek 
that  you  seem  fair  to  win  the  successes  of  life.  You 


have  only  been  started  in  the  preparation  for  that 
service,  and  the  wise  student  never  forgets  the  old 
Greek  ideal,  “A  learner  once,  a  learner  always.” 
Never  lose  sight  of  the  fine  discipline  of  the  Greek 
mind  ideally  portrayed  in  Plato’s  Republic,  where  he 
points  out  that  it  takes  sixty  years  to  study  to  be  a  sage, 
and  that  the  business  of  the  State  is  to  breed  a  sage. 
For  when  once  you  have  made  a  sage  you  have  made  a 
leader  and  counsellor  and  guide  for  society.  And  he 
was  wise  enough,  pondering  in  the  streets  of  Athens  to 
see  that  it  took  time,  long  time,  earnest  time,  persever¬ 
ing  preparation,  to  put  one’s  self  in  the  possession  of 
commanding  influence  and  power.  So  I  want  to  com¬ 
mend  to  you  the  fact  that  when  you  close  your  class 
books,  you  have  not  closed  the  books  that  you  must 
study  if  you  are  ever  to  win  the  great  victories  of  life. 
A  student  once,  a  student  always. 

Then  there  is  a  power  in  one’s  personality.  You 
do  not  only  get  your  power  from  having  a  purpose,  and 
preparation  to  achieve  that  purpose,  but  you  get  a 
certain  power  from  the  way  you  yourself  behave  under 
the  circumstances.  I  need  not  recite  to  you  the  story 
well  known  to  every  reader  of  our  American  literature, 
the  Stone  Face  in  the  valley  in  the  White  Mountains. 
But  I  do  want  to  say  to  you,  and  I  want  to  say  to  you 
earnestly,  that  the  quality  which  you  yourself  bring  to 
your  purpose  and  to  your  preparation  for  your  work  has 
quite  as  much  to  do  with  your  success  as  any  other  one 
element  entering  into  the  problem.  If  you  are  grouchy 
and  sour  and  morose  and  sordid  and  mean,  and  if  your 
own  spirit  is  selfish  and  narrow  and  bigoted,  you  will 
never  be  large  enough  to  fill  the  place  of  the  great  soul 
of  God  and  of  the  world.  So  I  ask  you  who  are  going 
out  from  the  college,  think  about  yourself  and  try  to 
learn  this  important  lesson  which  I  believe  is  the  hard¬ 
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est  lesson  that  comes  to  any  of  us,  that  when  we  fail,  the 
fault  is  with  ourselves  and  not  with  others.  I  know  a 
thousand  men  who  would  be  President  of  the  United 
States  today  if  it  were  not  for  somebody  else  interfering 
with  them.  They  blame  it  on  the  other  fellow,  and  I 
have  even  known  some  base  enough  to  blame  it  upon 
their  own  parents,  and  say  they  hadn’t  a  chance.  “Dad 
was  against  me,  and  mother  didn’t  care.”  The  fact  of 
the  matter  is,  Shakespeare  understood  it  quite  as  well  as 
you  do  :  “The  fault,  dear  Brutus,  lies  not  within  others 
but  in  ourselves  that  we  are  underlings.”  It  was 
Addison  who  said:  “  ’Tis  not  in  mortals  to  command 
success,  but  we’ll  do  more,  Sempronius,  we’ll  deserve 
it.”  And  I  find  as  I  meander  among  other  folks  that 
you  get  from  others  substantially  what  you  give  to  others, 
that  if  you  want  the  large  compensation  of  life  to  come, 
you  must  put  the  personal  element  of  grace  and  courtesy 
into  your  life.  Here  is  a  test  of  a  gentleman  which  is 
simple  enough  for  even  the  kindergartner  to  understand. 
What  do  you  mean  by  a  gentleman?  You  say  of  a 
certain  man,  “He  is  a  gentleman.”  What  do  you  mean 
by  that?  You  mean  the  kind  of  coats  he  wears,  the 
sort  of  uniform  he  puts  on,  you  mean  the  amount  of 
schooling  he  has  had,  the  number  of  acres  he  owns? 
Do  you  mean  these  extraneous  and  external  things? 
Not  at  all.  A  gentleman  is  one  whom  you  are  glad  to 
greet,  and  for  whom  you  are  the  better  when  he  goes, 
who  has  brought  forth  to  you  gladness  and  given  to  you 
gifts  of  help.  If  he  cannot  do  that,  he  is  not  a  gentle¬ 
man  ;  so  that  Rosenkranz  is  right  when  in  his  analysis 
of  Hegelian  morality  he  points  out  that  the  first  quality 
of  a  sincere  moral  life  is  courtesy,  kindliness  of  heart, 
warmth  of  feeling  for  others,  the  quality  that  shows  itself 
all  through  the  centuries  in  the  Rock  of  Ages  from  the 
dawn  of  our  new  civilization,  “Peace  on  earth,  good 


will  among  men,”  for  good  will  is  willing  good  to  others. 
It  is  only  when  your  spirit  is  rich  enough  and  fine 
enough  and  strong  enough  to  wish  well  to  others,  that 
others  will  make  your  life  rich  and  worth  while. 

There  is  another  quality  that  I  wish  to  commend  to 
you  this  morning,  the  quality  of  dependableness,  relia¬ 
bility,  the  quality  that  makes  people  say  of  you,  “That 
man  will  stay  put.”  That  is  but  the  “flowering  out,”  in 
the  phrase  of  the  street,  of  the  quality  of  power  in  pur¬ 
pose  in  your  own  soul.  Can  you  be  trusted,  relied  upon, 
are  you  worth  a  hundred  per  cent,  in  the  market  of  the 
human  will?  That  is  the  question,  dependableness;  be 
steady.  It  was  said  of  the  good  old  Dunker  people  who 
lived  down  in  Montgomery  county,  down  in  General 
Stewarts’s  home  country,  in  colonial  days,  that  their 
word  was  as  good  as  their  bond.  That  is  the  kind  of 
men  we  want  today  all  over  this  country,  who  when 
they  say  a  thing,  mean  that  thing  and  not  some  other 
thing  instead  of  it,  who  are  concerned  not  to  form 
phrases  in  which  to  deceive  but  to  express  in  simple 
language  the  earnest,  complete,  honest  conviction  of 
their  souls.  You  are  neither  morally  nor  intellectually 
honest  if  you  use  the  training  of  your  college  to  deceive 
your  fellowmen.  It  is  a  power  which  is  in  your  hands 
to  use  as  you  will. 

Finally,  this  thing.  If  you  want  to  achieve  the 
crowning  virtue  of  a  good  life,  incorporate  in  your  soul 
the  virtue  of  humility  which  in  its  last  analysis  is  the 
confession  of  your  own  conscience  that  you  do  not  know 
all,  and  that  if  you  follow  the  guidance  of  your  own 
judgment  you  will  err,  that  if  you  follow  the  guidance 
and  conscience  of  other  men,  they  like  you  will  err,  and 
you  will  walk  in  devious  ways ;  that  in  the  last  analysis 
you  must  come  to  understand  that  human  judgment  is 
fallible,  and  therefore  you  must  trust  the  leading  of  your 


life  to  a  judgment  that  is  infallible,  which  is  the  judg¬ 
ment  of  Almighty  God,  our  common  Father;  and  when 
we  have  sensed  our  own  limitations  and  confess  His  own 
omnipotence,  then  we  add  to  our  souls  the  virtue  of 
religion  which  is  humility.  You  will  never  work  with 
great  power  if  you  are  not  humble,  and  you  will  never  be 
sincerely  humble  unless  you  are  a  devout  believer  in  the 
omnipotence  of  Almighty  God.  So  I  commend  to  you 
in  the  last  analysis  this  fact,  that  you  cannot  live  to  the 
highest  and  best  in  society,  you  cannot  do  the  large 
things  for  your  kind,  you  cannot  touch  in  a  big  way  the 
work  of  your  country  if  you  are  not  an  humble  believer 
in  the  religion  of  your  fathers.  Furthermore,  in  our 
civilization,  it  lies  inherent  in  the  constitution  of  our 
country,  it  is  wrought  in  the  very  fabric  of  your  Com¬ 
monwealth,  it  lies  in  the  hearts  of  all  law  abiding  citizens, 
— go  to  God.  Never  lose  sight  of  that  if  you  want  to 
live  as  you  should  live  in  this  world.  It  reminds  me  of 
that  fine  old  legend  carved  deep  in  the  granite  over  the 
now  ruined  gates  of  Busyram :  “In  the  midst  of  the 
light  is  the  beautiful,  in  the  midst  of  the  beautiful  is  the 
good,  in  the  midst  of  the  good  is  God,  the  Eternal  One.” 
And  through  all  your  quest  for  beauty  through  art,  and 
light  through  science  and  goodness  through  ethics,  re¬ 
member  that  the  heart  of  all  true  learning  is  God,  the 
Eternal  One. 


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The  Juniata  College  Bulletin  is  issued  quarterly,  and  includes  each 
year  the  Annual  Catalogue ;  the  Annual  Reports  of  the  President  and  other 
officers ;  and  announcements  of  special  departments  and  sessions. 


Entered  February  6,  1904  at  Huntingdon,  Pa.,  as  second  class  matter  under 
Act  of  Congress  of  July  16,  1894. 


J.  o.  BLAIR  OO.,  HUNTINODON,  PA. 


